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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
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Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson
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... every little boy thinks he invented sin.
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The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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All we got is the family unbroke.
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... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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